If anyone ever offers to cure you of a serious medical condition with reiki or other type of natural medicine, they are asking you to gamble with your life. In over twenty-five years of working in the healing arts as a bodyworker, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and reiki practitioner, I have never met a single person who was cured from a serious medical condition without at least one form of modern medical intervention.
If you stop to think about it, modern medicine would never have been invented if traditional medicines had all the answers because people don’t keep searching for solutions to problems that have already been solved, so it makes sense that we need both types of medicine depending upon what challenges arise for us.
It troubles me to see that the internet is littered with people who claim to have cured themselves of serious diseases, yet they all seem to be selling very expensive programs and products, while at the same time they complain about “Big Pharma.”
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of problems with the misapplication of modern medicine, but the truth is there are also plenty of problems with the misapplication of natural medicine, too, so it seem prudent to keep our thinking caps on and to not give up our autonomy to either type of practitioner when we are seeking support for health issues.
Anyone who has two brain cells to rub together can see that if cottage cheese and flax seed oil, or any of the other super simple solutions that are replete on the internet would cure cancer, then that would be a normal part of life and nobody would die from cancer. If it truly were that simple, there is no way that even an elaborate conspiracy could keep that from becoming common knowledge. The problem is that the people who are willing to gamble with your life are often people who experienced modern medical interventions themselves and they either minimize the benefit they received or they omit that information entirely. Due to HIPAA laws, the modern medical practitioners who treated them are unable to share that information, so it’s a free for all as far as what charlatans fail to disclose to their frightened potential customers.
Given how much suffering there is in the world, I am pretty sure that I would be plenty busy without having to gouge clients if I had a true cure for any of a host of terrible modern diseases. If I had such a powerful form of medicine, I can’t imagine not wanting to make sure everyone on the planet knew that I had discovered a cure that really does work. I would document it properly. I would bring in real media coverage and have them investigate my claims because I would have nothing to hide. Have you ever noticed that none of these people who sell cures on the internet have invited any reliable outside sources to confirm what they are up to or to replicate their results? Th
Now let’s say I am being unfair and I should take money out of the equation. Let’s say that it is expensive to produce these slick programs and that everyone has to make a living, so I should cut them some slack on whatever it is they are charging for their information, products, or services. And let’s also say that it’s okay for them to be hypocritical and ask to be paid, even though they point fingers at modern medicine providers and call them evil for charging for their services. Let’s just say that a hypocritical, double-standard is okay for whatever reason. Maybe the modern medical establishment is such a mess that they deserve to be called evil and the folks hawking their cures on the internet really do care about their customers.
Have you noticed that even though some of these people who have been around for over ten years they have not made a dent in the statistics in those diseases? If what they say is true, by now they should have thousands upon thousands of success stories to share. Where are all those satisfied customers who are happily still alive? People post everything on social media, including photos of their lunch. Doesn’t it seem odd that the thousands of people who should have been saved by these programs by now are not sharing their success stories on the internet? It would seem that beating a deadly disease would be a much more motivating reason to share on the internet than to post yet one more image of sushi, yet when you look, those intrepid survivors who bucked the system of the medical establishment are not there.
Of course, there are a few folks who may have been paid by the promoters to say they have benefitted, but without providing proper documentation of their journey, which may have included medical interventions which they are intentionally concealing, it seems as though the folks in the natural cure for cancer realm are doing the exact same thing that they accuse Big Pharma of doing. They are taking people’s money even though they can’t guarantee a cure and they are manipulating information to make them look good. The difference is that even though modern medicine cannot guarantee a cure, cures often do happen, depending upon the disease and how early it is treated.
I believe it is possible that in some cases of internet programs claiming to cure diseases, such as with chronic conditions, it may or may not be true that the promoters of their programs have cured themselves, but when it comes to something like cancer, there is no evidence that they are telling the truth. Believe me, I have looked because I have loved people who developed cancer and I wanted more than anything to save them. All I found were what appeared to me to be a bunch of people, who all seem to be working together sharing client email lists and recycling the same centuries old information about lifestyle changes that are certainly healthy, but not a substitute for medical treatment.
The number of people who should still be alive against all odds if those folks are correct, is so large that everyone would know someone who actually did survive cancer using one of those programs. i find it very interesting that I have never met anyone who survived cancer using any of those programs, but I can find videos of people sharing that their loved ones died because they believed in them.
Here is the brutal truth. Even if some of those folks selling programs on the internet did cure their own cancer naturally, curing one’s own body does not make one an expert on anyone else’s body or anyone else’s disease. More importantly, curing oneself is not equivalent to a license to practice medicine. People have been going to retreats for years before there even was an internet, where they did all manner of things to save themselves, and they still died. The problem is dead people can’t tell you what happened to them and their devastated families don’t want to talk about it.
I have not heard enough people who work in the gentler healing arts speak out against the abusive attitudes toward people who use modern medicine which are often prevalent within healing communities. It seems as though the crackpots who despise science and believe that we can wish our way to health with magical thinking are also the loudest, so they tend to get the most attention.
The practical, ethical people I know who work in the healing arts know their limits. They know the signs and symptoms that tell them it is time to refer someone to a medical doctor, and they do so regularly without fanfare. I have personally referred people to medical doctors who later thanked me for saving their lives because they had conditions that were caught early and easily treated that would most likely have ended in death if left unchecked.
Have you noticed that some of the most vociferous, and vicious crusaders against the medical establishment are people who have never had cancer themselves? I have experienced the devastation of watching loved ones die of cancer. I understand that feeling angry is a natural part of grieving and my heart goes out to anyone who is angry about that loss. At the same time, I don’t see how frightening other people away from seeing a real doctor and making informed decisions is making the world a better place.
Another oddity in the internet snake oil marketplace are programs being sold by patients who benefitted from surgery and sometimes even a round or two of chemotherapy who insist that if they had it to do over again, they would not have done the things that saved their lives. Sadly, the medical doctors who saved the lives of those hucksters are not allowed to tell their side of the story due to laws that protect private health information, so the information being presented by the person selling you something is always one-sided.
The truth is, people have tried to cure severe medical conditions with diet, yoga, saunas, lotions, potions, and a host of other methods for centuries and for the most part, people still died. Those traditional cures are very good supportive therapies, and I highly encourage you to do your own research and discover which ones work best for you to support you in not just regaining your health, but in maintaining it in the future. I do not recommend that you let someone else’s greed become your death sentence.
I find is astonishing that people who were saved from dying young from cancer would not be grateful to all the people and methods that saved their lives and instead would try to get rich off pretending they have a miracle cure for cancer even though the cure they are selling is not what cured them.
Their hypocrisy might be ironic if it were not so tragic. Unfortunately, if you do research on those programs, you will find that plenty of people die who use them in lieu of medical treatment. It is hard to find the stories because most families are not going to take the time and energy to post what happened to their loved-ones on the internet, but if you spend a little time tinkering, you can find plenty of stories of people who died because they were brainwashed against modern medicine.
When people who have benefited from modern medicine point their fingers at Big Pharma as an evil monster, I can’t help but wonder what is their motivation. Are they suffering from some sort of mental disorder? Has the trauma of having faced a serious illness messed with their minds in such a way that they now believe that just by the force of their will they can save others with methods that are not new and that don’t work? Could it be possible that they suffer from a more common mental affliction such as greed? It has been said that a fool and his money are soon parted. I am older than more than half of the world population now, so I have been around long enough to have also seen that fear and desperation will motivate otherwise intelligent people to part with their money as fast as any fool.
I have known a handful of people directly, and have heard scores of heartbreaking stories from others, about patients who were mislead by predators both on and off the internet. Sadly, many of these people who died had conditions with modern medicine success rates as high as ninety-five percent or higher.
The people I knew directly, refused to listen to me when I begged them to seek medical treatment. I tried to explain to them that just because I practice reiki, yoga, and meditation, it does not mean that I am so closed-minded that I would not use modern medicine when necessary. I tried to explain to them how grave the consequences would most likely be if they refused medical treatment. In some cases, I was very familiar with the medical treatment because I had cared for people who had those treatments and I explained to them that the treatments would not likely be as bad as they were making them in their minds. Instead, they chose to believe in people who were all too happy to take their money until they were on their death beds. These were not elderly people. These were people in the prime of their lives, and in one case, a mother who left behind a toddler, a kindergarten aged child, and a distraught husband.
Sometimes I have encountered people who had fantasies of dying a peaceful, beautiful death if they simply let cancer take its course. I have logged many long hours with folks in hospice situations, so I can tell you from experience that death by cancer for patients who refused medical treatment can be just as ugly and painful as death by cancer where medical treatment failed. The difference is that the people who refused treatment often express having more regrets because they wonder how things would have turned out if they had listened to their doctors and loved-ones in the beginning. This is especially painful for people to reflect on when they refused treatment for an early diagnosis that would most likely have been curable.